Shooting animation.

[Carlos182]

Hi guys.
I want to ask you something. I'm making my Mega Man X engine with Static object. A "blank" active object is the player, and then the animations are in other active object. The "other" object is called Sprite. So Sprite have the walk, run, dash, etc. animations. But you know, Mega Man X have another completly set of animations when he is shooting. The deal is, how to change the animation in the same frame that the other animation is running,... let's say, this 2 animations: walk and walk-shooting.
They both have 12 frames.
If the player is walking and in that mili second, the frame "4" of the "walk" animation is running, then the player shoots, the frame "4" of walk-shooting should appear, instead of frame "1".

I can't do that, I don't know if there is an option inside MMF2 that allows to change between object animations in the same frame.

I heard that using 2 "sprites", one for normal animations and the other for shooting animations would work, but I don't see that working.

Thank you again for your help.

Thanks to you, I've done this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFO-YPCaqQ

I wish I can complete the engine so I can start the game and make a whole new Mega Man X game (:

[Docilemouse]

I don't know how effecient it would be for your situation, but when I'm trying to do something like this, I'd go:

First, name an alterable value "Frame" or something.

+ Repeat while Left (or right) is held.
--> force animation frame of "Megaman" to AltVal "Frame" of Megaman.

+ Every 00-00-05 (faster timer will speed up animation speed)
--> add 1 to "frame" of "megaman"

+ AltVal "Frame" of Megaman is greater than (insert number of animation frames -1 here)
--> Set AltVal "Frame" of Megaman to 0

+ Pressed fire button
--> Change animation of "Megaman" to "run shooting"

After all this, you can make a timer scheme to decide how long it takes for him to revert back to his normal animation. Make sure you restore his animation frame when other animations play.

Hope that helps.

[Carlos182]

I can't get that working...
At least I tried with no success... Thank you Docilemouse anyway.
Is there another way?
Thank you!